damage feasant

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damage feasant - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Damage feasant \Dam"age fea`sant\ [OF. damage + F. faisant
     doing, p. pr. See Feasible.] (Law)
     Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]

damage feasant - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  DAMAGE FEASANT, torts. This is a corruption of the French words faisant 
  dommage, and signifies doing damage. This term is usually applied to the 
  injury which animals belonging to one person do upon the land of another, by 
  feeding there, treading down his grass, corn, or other production of the 
  earth. 3 Bl. Com. 6; Co. Litt. 142, 161; Com. Dig. Pleader, 3 M 26. By the 
  common law, a distress of animals or things damage feasant is allowed. Cow. 
  Inst. 230; Gilb. on Distress and Replevin, 21. It was also allowed by the 
  ancient customs of France. 11 Toull. 402 Repertoire de Jurisprudence, 
  Merlin, au mot Fourriere; 1 Fournel, Traits de Voisinage, au mot Abandon. 
  Vide Animals.